Argh -- thanks fellas. It seems in some ways QC is sort of in the same issue it had been before; definitely something I could do easily within Flex/Flash, but don't think that would display well across the screen.
On May 10, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Alex Drinkwater wrote: > You could probably do something similar with a Queue patch. Might be simpler > this way, in fact. Push the first image across the frame until it goes across > the full width, then add a new image to the Queue and continue moving both > across, with an offset to the position of the second image, and repeat. > > Just a thought. > > a|x > > > On 10 May 2010, at 16:45, Achim Breidenbach wrote: > >> Hello Garry, >> >> welcome back! ;-) >> >> Since we didn't find a good solution for this ticker-problem either, we >> developed a custom render patch to do a crawler to be used in BoinxTV. But >> in the case of stock data you might be able to do it in pure QC, like I did >> with the Twitter layer in BoinxTV: I generated an image with all data from >> one tweet (in your case from one stock) and pushed this over the screen from >> right to left, from out-of-screen to fully visible on screen. Right at the >> point when the image is fully visible I added the image to an accumulator >> buffer caching the image. Now I created a new one with the next data. Again >> pushing it in from the right side, but also moving the accumulator image >> accordingly so it looks like the new image and accumulator image are one. >> Ever the new image is fully visible I dropped a new image into the >> accumulator which represented the current view on screen. >> >> best, >> >> Achim Breidenbach >> Boinx Software >> >> >> On 10.05.2010, at 17:00, grimmwerks wrote: >> >>> Hey all - originally joined this list sometime like 2005/2006 when QC first >>> came out... played with it a bit, met issues, and dropped it. >>> >>> Now I'm trying to re-introduce myself to it and am wondering if there's any >>> great tuts out there? I'm not knew to programming but am still having >>> issues creating a lower third scrolling stock ticker... >>> >>> >>> Garry Schafer >>> grimmwerks >>> [email protected] >>> portfolio: www.grimmwerks.com/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/achim%40boinx.com >>> >>> This email sent to [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/the_voder%40yahoo.co.uk >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > Garry Schafer grimmwerks [email protected] portfolio: www.grimmwerks.com/
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